Aging Back Clinics
CompletedNot applicableNCT03564600
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to compare two different ways to treat chronic low back pain. The two types of treatment that the investigators will compare are called Usual Care and ABC Care. Usual Care tends to focus on the spine. ABC Care focuses on the entire body and the mind. With Usual Care, participants will work with their own doctor to come up with a treatment plan. With ABC Care, participants will work with the investigators' ABC providers and their team. The investigators believe ABC Care will help reduce pain, lower costs, and increase participants' ability to do the things they enjoy doing better than Usual Care. In ABC Care the investigators hope to avoid treatments like surgeries where participants get metal rods put in their back. This research is being done at three Veterans Hospitals: the Veterans Administration of Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) in Pittsburgh, PA; the North Texas VA Medical Center in Dallas, TX; and the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, VA. This research study is being paid for by the Rehabilitation Research and Development section of the Veterans Health Administration. The investigators will be enrolling about 450 participants at 3 sites or around 150 at each site.
Study details
- Official title
- Optimizing Outcomes for Older Veterans With Chronic Low Back Pain Syndrome: Aging Back Clinics
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Aging Back Clinics management
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Start date
- 2019-01-03
- Primary completion
- 2024-03-29
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 65 Years to 89 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 3
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Older Veterans with CLBP, defined as pain in the lower back of at least moderate severity. * assessed with a verbal rating scale on \> half the days for \> 6 months * Veterans must be English speaking. * Must be able to commit to 12 months of study participation. * The Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment Screen (QMCI) will be administered on site to screen for mild cognitive impairment (MCI). * Those with MCI will not be excluded, but their PCP will be alerted. Exclusion Criteria: * Positive screen for dementia (score \<23 on the MMSE) * Pain in other body locations that is more severe than their low back pain * Red flags indicative of serious underlying illness requiring urgent care * e.g., fever, change in bowel/bladder function, sudden severe change in pain, unintentional weight loss, new lower extremity weakness * Previous lumbar surgery. * Acute illness. * Psychotic symptoms. * Prohibitive communication impairment. * e.g., severe hearing or visual impairment. * Neither pregnant subjects nor women of childbearing potential will be included due to the age requirements of the study. * Vulnerable subjects will not be enrolled, nor children and prisoners.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03564600